One-teacher schools get extra staff

The Queensland Government has announced one-teacher schools across Queensland are to receive extra staff.

The Government says one-teacher schools with more than 20 students across seven or eight year levels will receive the staffing boost.

Mount Isa MP Betty Kiernan says it will help those schools meet the challenges of teaching children across multiple year levels.

The Isolated Children's Parents Association (ICPA) has been pushing for extra resources for one-teacher schools for seven years.

ICPA president Lorraine McGinnis says it will mean some schools will receive a second teacher.

"We really believe that this is going to lead to an improvement in the learning outcomes for those students and hopefully that will bring stability to some of these small rural communities," she said.

"News has started filtering through to us that one-teacher schools with enrolments in that higher bracket between 21 and 26 [students] in seven or eight [school] year levels have received an additional 0.5 full-time equivalent.

"When they combine it with their entitlement to specialist teachers, it means that school communities can choose to have a second teacher."